Value of P.R. muni bonds dropped last month.
Muni bond funds rocked by big bets on Puerto Rican debt, stirring up memories of 2008.
Brokerage unit accused of loading clients up with municipal bond debt.
Pimco's bond guru cuts duration in Total Return Fund to 4.42 years.
The world's biggest investors are finding U.S. government bonds becoming safer, not more risky, as the deadline to avoid the first American default approaches.
Analyst Meredith Whitney is sounding yet another alarm about tax-exempt bonds (see above). Jeff Benjamin offers details.
SEC member Daniel Gallagher raised hackles last week by warning about a possible muni bond 'Armageddon.' He's not backing down.
No panic as many see last-minute deal getting done.
The combination of a weak outlook for bonds and research that investors close to retirement are OK with more risk leads Fidelity to tilt its target date funds more toward stocks.
Even though the partial shutdown of the government is set to give way to a prolonged — and probably nasty — debt-ceiling debate, now is not the time to bail from the markets.
Returns from the stock market's four-year rally match those of the late-1990s advance, but valuations are lagging. Bulls say that means there's more room to run; bears have a compelling counter argument.
Benchmark 10-year yields climb from almost the lowest level in seven weeks
Loomis Sayles & Co.'s Dan Fuss left rival bond-fund managers including Bill Gross behind in his eighth decade, by using a style generally associated with bargain-hunting stockpickers.
Jeffrey Gundlach's DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund, which has beaten 97% of rivals over the past three years, had its third straight month of net withdrawals as investors continued to flee bonds.
Hint: It isn't rising interest rates
Treasury 10-year note yields dropped to almost the lowest level this month as Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William C. Dudley said the U.S. economy has yet to show “any meaningful pickup” in momentum.
The Fed's unexpected change of heart has some advisers looking for a near-term rally in bonds. Jeff Benjamin has the story.
